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The previous world chess champion and lifelong democracy activist Garry Kasparov guides a brand new collection of conversations about society’s complacency with liberal values and the way this carelessness has fueled a democratic retreat—and a brand new belligerence amongst dictators.
New episodes launch each Friday, beginning July 11.
The next is a transcript of the trailer:
Frank Luntz: I do know you’re gonna get into some stuff—some fairly heavy stuff—however that is Garry Kasparov. I can’t consider it.
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Garry Kasparov: After I was younger, I used to be fortunate as a result of, as a chess prodigy, I may journey exterior of the Soviet Union to play tournaments overseas. And I skilled for myself that life felt completely different in a democracy. The world celebrated in 1991, when the dictatorship of the Soviet Union gave technique to new democracies. And I, too, hoped freedom was on the rise.
Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen: After all, the empire didn’t wish to allow us to go simply.
Kasparov: However within the many years that adopted, we’ve seen the regular advance of autocratic regimes, a brand new belligerence from dictators and autocrats worldwide, and democracies in retreat.
Masih Alinejad: For dictators, for the Islamic Republic, for Putin, for all of the autocratic regime, America is first. Their first goal is the destruction of American values.
Kasparov: Even America, a beacon of hope to me and for numerous thousands and thousands of others, has proven itself susceptible to the virus of authoritarianism and corruption.
Anne Applebaum: In case you lie or your propagandists lie nonstop, then the response of the general public is to say, Proper. You recognize, politics is a unclean sport. I do not know what’s true and what’s not true.
Gary Marcus: I imply, that’s precisely what’s occurring in the US proper now—is techno fascism.
Alinejad: You known as it hypocrisy.
Kasparov: I’m attempting to be diplomatic. I’m the host of the present.
Alinejad: I name it completely betrayal.
Kasparov: So I’m preventing the identical battle I fought in Russia.
William McRaven: What I’ve discovered is you want individuals who will converse reality to energy.
Kasparov: In Russia, we misplaced the battle. Right here, I like our probabilities, and I like them far more.
Bret Stephens: I imply, this nation is large, resilient. And we’ve made large errors and recovered from these errors previously.
Kasparov: However defenders of the free world can not take our liberties without any consideration.
Luntz: You, a number of instances, have tried to get me to inform you, Right here’s a roadmap to revive our democracy. And it is best to know, I’m writing that roadmap as we converse.
Kasparov: I’m Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion and lifelong activist for democracy. Be part of me this summer time for a brand new season of Autocracy in America, from The Atlantic. Pay attention and observe the present wherever you get your podcasts.
